/**
 * Logback: the reliable, generic, fast and flexible logging framework.
 * Copyright (C) 1999-2013, QOS.ch. All rights reserved.
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are dual-licensed under
 * either the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 as published by
 * the Eclipse Foundation
 *
 *   or (per the licensee's choosing)
 *
 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 */
package ch.qos.logback.core.read;

import ch.qos.logback.core.AppenderBase;
import ch.qos.logback.core.helpers.CyclicBuffer;

/**
 * CyclicBufferAppender stores events in a cyclic buffer of user-specified size. As the
 * name suggests, if the size of the buffer is N, only the latest N events are available.
 *
 *
 * @author Ceki Gulcu
 */
public class CyclicBufferAppender<E> extends AppenderBase<E> {

  CyclicBuffer<E> cb;
  int maxSize = 512;

  public void start() {
    cb = new CyclicBuffer<E>(maxSize);
    super.start();
  }

  public void stop() {
    cb = null;
    super.stop();
  }

  @Override
  protected void append(E eventObject) {
    if (!isStarted()) {
      return;
    }
    cb.add(eventObject);
  }

  public int getLength() {
    if (isStarted()) {
      return cb.length();
    } else {
      return 0;
    }
  }

  public E get(int i) {
    if (isStarted()) {
      return cb.get(i);
    } else {
      return null;
    }
  }

  public void reset() {
    cb.clear();
  }

  /**
   * Gets the size of the cyclic buffer.
   * @return the size of the buffer
   */
  public int getMaxSize() {
    return maxSize;
  }

  public void setMaxSize(int maxSize) {
    this.maxSize = maxSize;
  }

}
